Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 11
The country round about was conveniently laid out in fields, the largest of which was nearly of the same extent as one of Sweet Fern's flower beds.
Who acts: country · What happens: lay out, be · To what, where: country, fields
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 extent | nsubj |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 laid | mark |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 laid | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | aux:pass |
| 6 | conveniently | conveniently | ADV | _ | 7 laid | advmod |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 country | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 laid | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 largest | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 largest | det |
| 13 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 country | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 largest | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 extent | cop |
| 17 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 21 extent | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 extent | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 extent | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 extent | amod |
| 21 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 extent | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 beds | case |
| 25 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Fern | amod |
| 26 | Fern | Fern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 beds | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Fern | case |
| 28 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beds | compound |
| 29 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 extent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay out | past · passive | the country not said here | fields | about, conveniently property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in field=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the country | of the same extent; as one of Sweet Fern's flower beds; nearly property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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